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Topic: Qualex E-6 - $19.00 ?!?!
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Ryan Reuterskiold
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Posts: 12
From: Janesville, WI
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted November 16, 2006 09:08 AM
Interesting story...in October, I sent two cartridges of process E-6 super 8 film (64T) for processing through my local K-Mart, who I've always had good luck with. Price was $7.69 per 50 foot cartridge, which didn't seem unreasonable. (Although I can remember not so many years back when it was $1.97!). At any rate, I sent another 50 foot cartridge off last week and it was returned to me yesterday priced at $19.00!!! I argued for ten minutes with a high school kid who obviosuly didn't know movie film from mushrooms. (Said maybe he could send it back and have them return my negatives...yeah, OK.) I gave up, paid for it (because the film is of yours truly proposing to my fiance in Spain). Called Qualex this morning. The customer service rep there looked it up and said, yes, it's $19.00 now, probably due to that "nobody shoots movies anymore." She also said it's a 14 day turnaround because only one lab does it now (even though mine came back in 7 days). So, now I'm beginning to figure out what's going on. I tell her to look up, for interest, what 50 feet of Kodachrome costs. She tells me it's $7.69. Ah ha!! They inverted the prices in their system, which I was finally able to convince her of, but she tells me there is nothing she can do other than alert a supervisor because the retail store set up their own pricing structure.
So, couple words of advice: 1) Always be leary of Kmart (probably goes without saying) 2) If you want some K-14 done REALLY cheap, hurry up and send it off before they fix their pricing problem!!
Still does nothing for me...I don't even know how to go about explaining this whole mess to my local K-mart in hopes that they will beleive my story.
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Ryan Reuterskiold
Junior
Posts: 12
From: Janesville, WI
Registered: Oct 2006
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posted November 16, 2006 12:28 PM
Steve - I think you're absolutely right. Gone are the days when the clerk at the photo desk was there because he/she had a genuine interest in photography or anything related. Now it has become a necessary evil if someone wants to work in the same department where the latest Play Station games are stocked. I guess that's what I get for patronizing discount stores, though.
On the engagement...thanks. We were actually traveling with some other people, who also did not know this event was going to take place. I had with me a Kodak Instamtic M2 (the simplest, "one button" Super 8 camera I could easily transport and have a stranger operate without any explanation). At one point, when the moment was right, I simply handed it to a travel companion and said, "Point this over there, hold down this button, and don't stop filming." So, after a puzzled look, we were rolling and all of it was captured great. My fiance tought I was nuts for lugging a Super 8 camera, but she did admit that it was neat to watch the moment on screen. She said it makes her feel like it was 1965 that we got engaged!!
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